Schedule 4 Factors for deciding the public interest

Schedule 4 of the RTI Act contains no annotations, but the public interest balancing test is explained in the Annotation to section 47(3)(b) of the RTI Act. The Annotation includes the Public interest applied - factors, which lists schedule 4 public interest factors and Commissioner decisions which have considered and applied them.

Access to a document may be refused to the extent the document comprises information the disclosure of which would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest under section 49—see section 47(3)(b).